Nov2025
Nov2025
LLL welcomes new CEO
Karen Pienaar has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of LLL Australia. An experienced chief executive, finance professional and business operations manager, and a committed Lutheran, Karen had been serving as interim CEO since August.
Nov2025
Betrayal and grief
by Tim Klein
The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: ‘O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom, my son, my son!’ (2 Samuel 18:33).
Nov2025
Are you ready for Christmas?
by Anne Hansen
Lutheran Tract Mission (LTM) have several resources to help you prepare for Christmas and explore the season of Advent. Explore the LTM website at www.ltm.org.au and search for ‘Advent’ to find these resources.
Nov2025
A monument to me!
by Tim Klein
During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, ‘I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.’ He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day (2 Samuel 18:18).
Nov2025
Conspiracy!
by Tim Klein
… Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him. Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel (2 Samuel 15:5,6).

